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[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Your language is rude. Please adress your point in a more formal way, without claiming that I would be yelling or bullshitting.

I still don't see the deposition of nuclear waste as straight forward as you claim. We have accumulated waste for many decades and, so far, have establiahed only a single site. If this was new technology I would give it the benefit of the doubt, but we have decaying castors, wich will become more and more difficult to handle, as the fule rods become brittle. Just building new Reactors and think we will handle the waste eventually, is not enough to convince me.

If we had the resources to build nuclear powerplants and renewables, we should do both, but we have not. Thus, every Cent spent on nuclear is not spent on renewables which give more power per invested money.[1]

Baseload: The grids might not yet handle a widespread dunkelflaute, but they can be, and currently are, extended to shift energy from production places to the regions where they are needed. Furthermore the cost of energy storage is falling every every year[2], while the the cost of nuclear remains more or less stagnant.[3]

I agree that coal does more harm than nuclear, but as states above, we should put our effort in renewables.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2024/may/24/nuclear-power-australia-liberal-coalition-peter-dutton-cost
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline
[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/184754/cost-of-nuclear-electricity-production-in-the-us-since-2000/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sorry for being rude, I have just heard the same arguments over and over and over, and I am getting tired of them.

The reason as to why we haven't built more storage sites is our fear, our fear of radiation, most people don't understand how radiation works and have seen horrible photos and videos from Chernobyl and think that it is impossible to go there still.

It is the nimby crowd who has messed it up so completely.

Add to that the odd report about how to prevent future humans from the waste sites, something not needed, which plays on the fears.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I agree that fear and NIMBYs are one key issue that hinders us into progressing into a green future. Although we may not agree how to proceed best, it is important that we take quick and large steps, and stay united against continuing the emissions of CO2.

Thanks for the discussion :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

You are very welcome, thank you for putting up with me!